Despite all of Moose's excellent retouching work, I still do like the
original shot. Brightening the image to bring out details on the woman
unfortunately destroys the nice deep graduated blues of the lake - replacing
them with the less interesting ripples on the waters surface. For me, in my
personal opinion, its the graduated blues that help make the shot what it is
- I'd rather see them than the belt on the woman's jeans or the ripples on
the lake. Also, the original has a kind of subjective more 'glossy' feel to
it - hard to describe, but looks more postcard like than on the enhanced
versions. I think it's the interplay between light, colour and shadow which
gets lost when the shadows are lightened. I agree that there are two
individually nice scenes within the original shot - but I still think the
original works because it is such a quiet and serene scene - it wouldn't
work for an action type or busy/noisy scene and re-composition would be
necessary for such scenes.
I suppose I'll summarise by just saying the original image works for me
because of the colours and gentle atmosphere of the scene - both of which
are marred by post processing enhancements.
Allan
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number of electrons were asked their permission to be terribly
inconvenienced. (And threw a party for them afterwards for being really cool
about it).
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>From: "Michael Wong" <mialop@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [OM] Re: My OM gears bring me a lot of fun #27
>Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 11:36:55 +0800
>
>
>Thanks, Moose. I have studied a lesson. Thank you very much!!!
>
>For my option, I'd like to separate 2 pictures to identify the subject
>obviously.
>
>
>--
>Michael
>
>Palm, Linux, Olympus, Mac user
>
>
>
>2007/1/3, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Michael Wong wrote:
> > > ....
> > > For the picture, I selected the wooden bridge and the highest 2 trees
> > > for the contrast of composition. The wooden bridge leads readers' eyes
> > > to the trees. The shadow of trees at the river increases the interest
> > > for the photo. Of course the interest points are the woman & the dog.
> > > It was my thinking while I took this picture.
> > >
> >
> > I can see where you are going with this composition, and I rather like
> > it. I think some post processing and a crop can strengthen it.
> >
> > I also see the point of those who have commented on complexity in the
> > composition being possibly confusing. That tends to happen when a shot
> > includes more than one "sub-composition". That doesn't mean one
> > shouldn't do it, but being aware of it can help in choosing
>compositions.
> >
> > More comments and some visual illustrations
> > <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/MWong/IMG1862.htm>.
> >
> > Moose
> >
> >
> >
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